At noon on the 18th March, 1892, we suddenly found ourselves on the rim of a sheer cliff, and looked down into the oblong bowl of Ngorongoro, the remains of an old crater. Its bottom was grassland, alive with a great number of game.

Grant's gazelle is the largest of the two common gazelles. It is named after the British explorer James Augustus Grant, who searched for the source of the Nile from 1860 to 1864.